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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-16
WHAT IT MEANS.

"Dear SIR he said, ''rd like to ask,
Unless the questions rude,
What means those strange and mystic words,
'InOcuous desuetude"
"Of course the question is not rude"
The other man replied;
''They mean, you see, the business man,
Who does not advertise"
A few days ago IA letter arrived at
Rutland with simply the address,
"Mrs. George Aitkens, the Billings
farm Vermont. The letter was from
England. Postmaster Redington sent
it over here. and it was delivered all
right to Mrs. George Athens on the
Billings farm.
A Professor Of music appeared on
the street the other day-he al
ways does when he is "short" and
hailed one of our stage drivers, saying
he wanted to go to Plymouth the next
morning to play for dance, and to
be sure and call for him on time
at his residence. The Professor then
clapped his hand on his pocket as snd-
den as man docs who has just passed
through a suspicious crowd, aud ex-
claimed in tones that would do credit
to professional actor: There, |
have left my wallet at home | want
to get me some cuffs and collars, lend
me fifty cents and l will pay you all
together Tomorrow" He got the
money. The stage drove up the next
morning, but the Professor was non
est-that is, he could not be found
and the knight of the whip has not
seen his fifty cents yet, nor is he likely
to. William ought to have II guardian
appointed over him for protection from
such fellows.
Rev. W. j. johnson, formerly To-
Gated at Springfield, will manage the
daily reporter of the M. L. Confer
ence, which meets at St. Johnsbury,
this year, April 2l. Mr.. Johnson has
had newspaper experience, and will
|. make success of the Reporter, be-
doubt. The original poem by
- Hough, formerly pastor
Hollow, the Charge
a Minister,") will
\ al times the sub
pts), which may
f. Rodist preacher
ohnson at St..
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H. F. ROYCE & co.
Woodstock, VT, Dee. %, 'SG.
Business OppOrtU1jty.

SEEING a large field for the enlargement of
y business, Il firm Of ID years standing have
recently reorg nized into Stock Company
and have for sale $40 900 of ; ock. To the
right party this will be found rare chance
for investment, Would prcfera Young man
to grow up in, and learn the business. Full
investigation given and references required.
Address MEG, Box l0G,
Burlington, Vt.e1
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-16
Failing i4e alth.

Ten years ago my health began 10 fail.
was troubled with distressing Cough,
Night Sweats, Weakness, and Nervous
ness. tried various remedies pre-
scribcd by different physicians, but
became so weak that l could not go up
stairs without stopping to rest. r."
friends recommended me to try Aycg :
Sarsaparilla, which did, and l am NV
as healthy and strong as ever. - Mrs.
l.. l.. Williams, Alexandria, Mimi.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-16

The March meeting of the W G Z
q will be held as usual next Saturday
at half past Two O'Clock p. m. Sub
ject for the first half hour, "Social
customs and their influence upon tenn
perance reform"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-16
East Barnard.

The measles are having quite run
here.
EW Allen is still quite sick
Clinton Rice aud John Rowland are
added to the sick list
Charles Golf and Mary Kenyon
were married last Wednesday night at
her fathers residence.
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We Challenge Comparison with any goods sold
R0STON & LOWELL e z
Northern Division.
g SUMNER ARRANGEMENT

On and after June %. 80, Passengers Trans
" will run as fOllCws
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord Qtl0.5 IS
A.M* for White River Junction, connection
with train for Well River, St. Johnsbnr7
Barton, Newport, Willoughby and Magog
Lakes, StanStead Quebec, Bath, Litlleton.
Lancaster, and the White and Franconia
Mountains. Also, with trains for Mont
peler, Mansfield Mountain, burlington, $,
Adams, Rouse's Point, Montreal, Ogdens.
brrgh, and the Yves,
ExEhEss TRAIN leaves Concord ut SAC
P.M.sfor White 3iver junction & Bristol.
EVENING FXPREss TRAIN leaves Concord
at $50 p. NJ. for White River Junction, con
Meeting with trains for Montpelier, BurIins
ton, ST. Adams, Rouse's Point, Montrca,
Ogdensburgh, and the West and with Wood
stock Il. Il. for Que chez, Woodstock, etc.
*Or on arrival oil trains from Boston, Wor
cester, Portsmouth, Portland, Ne.
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FARM FOR SALE.
NEW
BOOT & SHOE SHOP.

THE undersigned has opened Il new Boot
l and Shoe Shop in Frenchs Corner Block,
over the Market, where he is fully prepared
n 1o
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-03-16

In keeping a Jail clearinghouse,
you don't have to hunt up your board
ers, like ordinary clearinghouse keep
ers-they are brought to you. A chap
named Chas. Lewis was dropped in on
jailor Harpin Tuesday morning before
breakfast. He broke into tie Chester
Depot the night before, secured about
$50 in money and some postage stamps.
He took to the woods, made a speDdi
run, but the natives closed in on him,
and going down hill, it is said, he
stretched his legs, only surpassed by
the Colosses Rhodes, jumped, and
landed IN tree-top, where he was
captured. We have not learned whe.h-
er they had to cut the tree down to get
him or not. Anyway, they got him,
and he is booked for Windsor.
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THIS paper as ON sale at the
-Post-cHce at 3 cents a copy.


Uncal led for Letters.
The following is the list of letters I'M
called for in the POST Office at Woodstock,
Vermont, March l6, 1887:
Mrs Caroline Brown.
Henry Fl Cato, or Cata.
Mrs kufus Maynard.
A r Tyrrell.
Mrs Laura Washburn.
SES~ Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, advertised"
WIN. d. McMAsrER, P. M.
WANTED-A Jour. Printer at this
office Immediately.
w oodstock will make great strides
toward greatness next summer.
Mrs. Nathan Clafln and daughter
from Jacksonville, Fla, are visiting
at Mrs. C.'s brothers., L. n. Ord
way.
The backbone of winter don't sag
worth cent yet. Five feet of snow,
and cold. Come, gentle spring.
ID d. Davis is soon to remove his
express and telegraph office from Bill
lings' store to the rooms recently va
Gated by A A Nichols in the Standard
block. The rooms are now heing fit
ted up. This will make comfortable
quarters for "Dick," who, by the way,
conducts the business in a thoroughly
business-like manner.
Why are two ladies walking abreast
on the sidewalk like cyclone? Be-
cause they wont turn out for anything,
and yet they talk about the ilnpolte-
no - nf man
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No Use Trying to Refor m Him.
From the NetC York Jl.ib,t1lp.


With Southern family in New York there
has been staying for some time q young lady
from the interior of the State. She Is of q phi
lanthropic turn of mind, but her benevolent in
stincts have recently received a sad check Fully
convinced that where there's a will there's a
way, " she undertook to reform an old colored
servant of the family, who loved whisky mot
wisely but too WE'LL
George Washington jefferson was from "de
Souf," and in consideration of years of faithful
service the family took no notice of his failing.
But the young lady tried persuasion, caiolement,
scolding, tracts, presents and everything else
that good heart and earnest purpose could
suggest to induce him to abandon his intemper-
ate habits. But it was all in vain At last in a
fit of pardonable patience she said to him one
day:
81 declare, George, I'd give you $1,000 ifyou'd
give up drinking"
"Lor, young miss, - replied the old incorrigi-
BILE. ''d'yo know what I'd do wild dat 81 900 if /
had it. I'd jes' buy me a lounge, a barl O.
whisky, pump, an I'd hire Niger an I'd
jes' lay my old black self down on dat lounge,
an I'd jes make dat niger pump dat whisky
down my froat. Lor', miss, dat nd be jes ike
de yer o jubilee. Don't you temp me dat way
no mo-"
The young lady has given up all efforts to re
form George Washington Jefferson. and nobody
demonstrates with him now when he gets
drunk.
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Leaf From an Unpublished Novel.
Burdette in BROOKLYN E,oole


"Agamemnon," said his wife softly, as she
opened the door of her husbands study, where
the Colonel was busily engaged upon his great
speech for the coming Grand Army reunion.
"Agamemnon, dear, there is man in the par
lor who wishes to see you a moment. He says
If tell you that old Norm, the dead shot of old
G company of the old Threety-twoth of the old
Onth Brigade of the old marchin' division of the
him"
The Colonel, who was carefully reconnoiter-
ing down the bic column of the dictionary to
ascertain the proper spelling of bichewminous,
lost his place and was irritated
81 by all the gods that fought at Cohoes, or
some place up that way, / can't be bothered by
every dutfer that served in the United States
Army. l don't know him; never heard of such
q man; never served in that corps. That fell
low was u deserter, anyhow; | courtmartialed
him myself; there was no such man in my regi-
ment. Tell him I'm busy; tell him I'm out of
town; tell him I'm dead; send him away. Here,
I'll go down and bounce the beggar myself: I'll
bet a thousand dollars he wants to borrow money
of me. I'll go down and fire him out I've had
enough of this; I'll settle him once for all, the
lazy loafer with nothing better to do than bother
busy people who don't want to see him. Where
is the tramp? Oh! Well, well, WE'LL Old
Norm! II amt glad to see you! ! was askin'
some of the old boys only yesterday if they
knew where you were; | was goiu' to write to
you. don't know any man in the old fighting
Threety-twoth I'd rather see than you No, you
don't have to go, neither; you're gon to stay to
dinner; put down that hat some of the boys II
be up this evening, expect. Say, do you re-
member that time down at Fort Slaughter when
you and me"
The remaining chapters Of this interesting
novelette, will not be published here, but if you
want to risk a little money you can get bet of
several thousand dollars and twenty cents that
at least dozen subscribers of the Eaqle know
all the other chapters by heart
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LASTING AN AGED ROMEO.
His Style Of Counting Not Favored by
the Object of His Affections.
Erom "a 81. Panl CLOG

DAlC ODJSOS Va Lib AAAAOCOANAASs
From the st. Paul Globe.
Hon. Augustus n. Dibble is an aged and
wealthy farmer living in the quiet old town of
Cornwall, Conn. He lost his wife some months
ago, and, notwithstanding the fact that he cele-
brated his 18th birthday q short time since, he
feels as though he needed another helpmeet.
With q view TO selecting good wife he has been
on q still hunt for several weeks past among the
young ladies' of the town.
After deliberate canvass of all the young
women of his acquaintance, the old farmer
decided that Miss Jennie Rodgers, a buxom
brunette of twenty odd summers, would fill
the BILL and Mr.. Dibble lost no time waiting
upon the young lady. But somehow his first
interview with the dashing beauty was not an
overwhelming success, and so he determined TO
adopt another style of counting. He would do
his wooing by letter in future. So the other
day he sent Jennie note, describing in fitting
terms his undying love and devotion, and as
evidence of his abundance of worldly goods and
bill. '''' A'''00 u S0' -''-'A ~ '-'o''eN " WV
When Miss Rodgers got the note she became
excited and felt deeply insulted, and the next
day she procured big, heavy horsewhip and
set out with the intention of finding Hon. MIR.
Dibble and giving him her answer in person.
AS soon as she encountered the aged Romeo,
she proceeded to give him O severe thrashing,
explaining her action the while in few sarcastic
remarks. The old man was considerably the
worse for wear when Miss Rodgers at last de-
sisted, but it is thought that he has been en-
tirely cured of his love for the fair but furious
Jennie.
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Farming Made to Paw

When the war began young man whose
home was in a county in Middle Georgia,
left the farm and marched away with
company of volunteers to serve the Confed-
cracy i'll Virginia. He was among the for
tunate, for he escaped both injury and cap
ture. At the end of the war he returned to
his home TO find all the negroes free and the
farm on which he was born and reared al
most an entire waste. Believing that it
would be impossible to make farming pay
with free labor, he prepared himself for the
bar. During the five years following his
admission he struggled hard to make both
ends meet, sometimes barely succeeding.
In the meantime farmers and la
borers had become accustomed to
the new order of things, and a few of the
former were making something more than
mere living. 1t happened that farmer,
whose property adjoined the young mans
farm was one of the few. In conversation
with this farmer one day, the young man
was induced to believe that under proper
conditions the earth might be made to yield
a fortune. He owned nearly thousand
acres, which he had leased TO negroes during
his five years struggle at the bar He sold
all but three hundred, hired laborers, OBJ
tanned supplies, and went to work to make
farming pay. He repaired houses, rebuilt
fences, saw that his land was carefully pre-
pared, and personally superintendent his
laborers while they were planting and cult
waiting. AT the end of the first year he was
somewhat in debt but his farm was in fairly
good order and he had gained experience
which would be Of service to him.
At the beginning of the second year the
young man found that all his laborers
wished to remain with him. He had paid
them good wages and treated them fairly,
and they did not desire to risk hiring to
anybody else During the year he made a
number Of improvements on his farm, diver
sited his crops, studied farming, worked
early and late and was rewarded by finding
himself free Of debt when his crops were
harvested and sold.
More than ten years have passed since the
young man began to farm. To-day his prop
erty is the most valuable in his county.
He owns good houses and substantial
barns, sleek horses and mules and fat cattle,
owes no man anything, and has a snug sum
invested in railroad stocks and Georgia State
bonds He has charming wife, who is
industrious and economical; and that he has
the respect and confidence of the people of
his county is attested by the fact that they
have elected him to represent them in the
General Assembly without solicitation upon
his part.
This young mans success suggests a lesson
to the young men who are anxious TO leave
the farm The new order of things requires
new methods, This fact properly under
stood, intelligent and unremitting effort
will make farming pay in Georgia as well
as il pays anywhere else
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PERSONAL.

SENATOR VOORHEES, has sailed from Victoria.
b. c., for Alaska.
Dr. KNOX of Daubllry, Conn, keeps seventy
snakes in his backyard.
CANON HALE of Nottingham Eng has been
offered the place of Bishop of Nova Scotia.
GEORGE w. CABLE was overworked by his trip
South, and has since been confined TO his room
much of the time.
MISS ADELAIDE JOHNSON, of st. Louis has re-
ceved an order from Mrs. Logan to make busts
in marble of herself and Gen. Logan.
President CLEVELAND has been invited by the
Grand Army Post of Fremont, Nebraska, to
march in It's ranks on the Fourth of July.
THE King of Servia. it is said, will marry one
of his wifes former DANES of honor if he sue
ceeds in obtaining divorce from Queen Ma
tale.
WHEN Mr.. Edison uses the telephone he fairly
shocks whoever receives his message by talking
very loudly. Being slightly deaf he does not ap.
preciate the high pitch of his own voice.
SENATOR DoN CAMERON will celebrate the
Fourth of July in philanthropic way. He will
entertain 800 poor children at his place near
Washington, ID. c. Mr.. Cameron is growing
better with age.
A SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST of Waterford, Conn.,
Rev. Edmund barrow was born in the seventh
year of this century, on the seventh day of the
month, on the seventh day of the week, and in
the seventh hour of the day.
IT Is made known that Miss Gertrude Barrett
second daughter Of Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, the
eminent tragedian, is engaged 10 be married to
Mr. Joseph Anderson, brother of Miss Mary
Anderson, the famous actress
A. +. HEARD, of Ipswich Mass, who has been
made Secretary Endcott's private secretary, is
said TO be man of fine education He has
Travelled and studied extensively. He has been
an intimate friend of Mr.. Endicott for some
years
BARON HUDDLEsToN the distinguished Eng
lish Judge who married the beautiful Lady
Diana, sister of the Duke of st. Adams, recently
found IL necessary while trying n breach Of
promise suit to have elucidated the meaning Of
the little crosses at the bottom of love letter.
SOLOMON j. SOLOMON, who has lately been
chosen member Of the Royal Institute of
Painters in Water Coors, is a veritable brand
plucked from the burning. He and his wife
were at the Inflated Opera Comique at Paris,
and narrowly escaped with more than the smell
of fire ON their garments.
EX.SESAToR STEPHEN w. DORSEY is annoyed
10y countless young men who want to 90 ranch
ing on his big estate in New Mexico. Theodore
Roosevelt has decided to send no more New
Workers to his Dakota ranch. The metropoli-
tan youth are generally unfit for the wild life Of
the extreme West and Southwest.
DURING hsrecent voyage to Europe Mr. Blaine
was asked repeatedly 10 play draw poker. To
all invitations of the kind ne answered that he
however, 70 drinking an occasional glass Of beer
or wine. He spent part If the time while on
the steamer in reading Sidney Iuskas novel,
As II Was Written"a title which must have
suggested 10 MIR Blaine certain interesting in.
cidents Of the past.
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The Lamb and the Wolf.
B,trdettc in BrooMve Eoole.

A thirsty Wolf was one day drinking at clear
flowing brook and was on its fourteenth lap
when q timid Lamb came to the same brook to
drink and went a little way pStream above the
Wolf Look here, - said the Lamb don't Won
know better than to push in and drink up all
the water when you see am drinking?" The
Wolf meekly replied that he was there first, but
would go away directly. We'll said the Lamb
haven't you any better manners than to
thrust your nose into the water and make that
horrible sucking noise when you drink?'' The
poor Wolf protested that it would be impossible
for him to drink drop with his nose in the wa
ter; he barely touched the tip of his tongue to
it. That's the same thing said the
Lamb, angrily, land beside 1 don't want
you to wash your fleece in this brook
while am drinking; l can't abide the taste
of wool in drinking water" The Wolf began
to tremble and said that he was standing as far
away from the brook as he could and
that moreover he had no wool, and never did
have. Now, swear" exclaimed the Lamb
this is too much for the patience of an angel
see how you stand there rolling up the water
with your great boots, making it so muddy that
l cannot drink. Look at it," But" said the
frightened Wolf how can that be when | am
not in the water, and you are up stream
anyhow" Great heavens!" roared the Lamb
must be tormented to death by this brawer?
If there is anything can't endure it is a conten-
tious spirit. 1 must have peace" So saying
she seized the bowling Wolf by the neck and
swept path across the messy glade with him
Explanatory Moral: The Wolf had been for
three years the husband of the Lambs only
daughter.
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lNDEI TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MEETINGS. Greenwich Park Association; Hon
orary and Pay Members Chatham Artillery;
Georgia Hussars.
SPECIAL NOTICES Dividend National Bank Of
Savannah; City Marshals Notice; Bids to Re
pair to Stores; Edward Lowell & Sons.
ADJUSTMENTS Base Ball. Savannah VS.. Anna
teurs.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENT En-
ployment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Mis-
celaneous.
EDUCATIONAL Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
tute Troy, n. Y; Nm. Chastenet's School;
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va
LEGAL NOTICES. Citation from the Court of
Ordinary.
STEAMSHIP ScHEDuLE-Ocean Steamship Com
pany.
AUCTION SALE-Fire Sale by D. r. Kennedy.
AT Buffers PHARMAcY-Dr. Hawkes. Crys-
tallized Lenses.
TALBoTr ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC.-Talbott g.
Sons Macon, Ga,
WHOLESALE GRocER--A. b. Hull.
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BOOmtown.
E.onl The Dnkntn Bell

From the Dakota Bell.
This is n town as dead as the tomb; il died from
the cause of too much boomi IL was doomed
by the papers and doomed by the people,
till prices were hoisted as high as a steeple
They plastered the land with mortgages
deep and burdened the town with taxes so
steep They paid big bonus to build a
new road, and laid for the suckers on whom
to unload. But the cash they snaked in
from their victims rank was all gobbled
up by the three per cent" bank It's Off
GERS skipped while the boom was still high,
and left the poor victims to suffer and sigh
But alas for their hopes, they sigh in vain; they
will never look on their like again The
boom has flattened and left them broke -
and the Canada trip is a sorry joke. And
the mortgages stick TO that fated town. for
that which goes up must surely come down.
And though they may brag of their excel
lent parks the suckers fight shy of the
real estate sharks. And the ad. in the paper
has had its day, for the agent who wrote IT,
omitted TO pay. And the grass grows high
where the train once run to the town which
the boom has all undone
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The South's Prosperity.

From the Nctc York Euening Post (htd)
The prosperity Of the South hes been greater
during the past two years than in any previous
years since the war. These two years have been
the first time in thst period when there has been
a Democratic administration at Washington. 1t
would of course ba absurd to attribute the recent
prosperity solely to the election Of Cleveland,
but the Republicans so long insisted that every
thing good was due to tho national adsnin;stra-
ton that they cannot reasonably complain if
the Democratic organs and Bt,Inp-spoakers now
follow their example. II is going TO be hard
work next year to persuade the Southern voters,
either white OF black, that they would gain any
thing by electing Republican President, when
all candid observers agree that both races have
made greater progress under q Democratic
President than they ever did before.
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The government officials evidently intend
to prosecute E. L. Harper, and the other
rascals who wrecked the Fidelity National
Bank of Cincinnati, to the full extent of the
law The increase in the bonds of the ac-
cused parties indicates this. There was some
fear doubtless that they would try to get to
Canada. Harper enjoys the distinction of
being the greatest bank robber that this
country has produced. 1t is probable that
the sufferers by his villainies will lose
Ss,000,00O or SlO,OOO,OO0 1t is limited that
his real name is Hopper, and that he killed
man in Pennsylvania, and hid himself in
Cincinnati under an assumed name. He
may not be guilty of murder, but he is GER
tainly the champion bank wrecker.